The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 90
t had reachedthe height of prosperit) when it was ravaged by the Vandalsin 407. In 472 it fell under the power of the Visigoths, whoestablished themselves in the town, and made the amphi-theatre their fortress. After suffering the usual course ofsieges and destruction by the Saracens and Franks,… … FIG. 20. AMPHITHEATRE, NIMES. Louis VIII., along with the other domains of the Count ofToulouse after the Albigensian wars. Although Nimes was a comparatively obscure townin the days of the Empire, the remains of its Roman monu-ments are the finest in Southern Gaul. The Amphitheatre(Fig. 19) is not…
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